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Windows

Windows Security Update CD

Order the Windows Security Update CD and why is this not going to be on the checkout counter of every computer retailer? Sure it would cost but isn’t that a required expense of selling a defective product?

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Windows

Windows Security Update CD

Order the Windows Security Update CD and why is this not going to be on the checkout counter of every computer retailer? Sure it would cost but isn’t that a required expense of selling a defective product?

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Quotes

Goering Speaks On Current Events

Why of course the people don’t want war… That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament or a communist dictatorship… the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders… All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.

–Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshal and Luftwaffe chief at Nuremberg trials, 1945

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Quotes

Goering Speaks On Current Events

Why of course the people don’t want war… That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament or a communist dictatorship… the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders… All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.

–Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshal and Luftwaffe chief at Nuremberg trials, 1945

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Politics

Offshoring Truths

“Off-shoring” Manifesto/Rant: Sixteen Hard Truths

9. Big companies do not create jobs, and historically have not. (Big companies are not “built to last;” they almost inexorably are “built to decline.”)
10. Job creation is entrepreneurially led, especially by a small number of “start-ups” that become growth companies (Microsoft, Amgen et al.); hence entrepreneurial incentives including low capital gains taxes, high R&D supports are a top priority.
11. Primary and secondary education must be reformed, in particular to underscore creativity and innovation — the mainstays of high-value added products and services. Children should be nurtured on risk-taking, with a low expectation of corporate cosseting.
12. Research universities must be vigorously supported.
15. Worker benefits (health care, re-training credits, pensions) should be portable, to induce rather than impede labor mobility.

So where were the re-training programs, entrepreneurial, and research supportive efforts in the tax cuts in the past years? Seems that education is one of the more severly cut areas of federal and state budget cuts in the past 2-3 years.

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Politics

Offshoring Truths

“Off-shoring” Manifesto/Rant: Sixteen Hard Truths

9. Big companies do not create jobs, and historically have not. (Big companies are not “built to last;” they almost inexorably are “built to decline.”)
10. Job creation is entrepreneurially led, especially by a small number of “start-ups” that become growth companies (Microsoft, Amgen et al.); hence entrepreneurial incentives including low capital gains taxes, high R&D supports are a top priority.
11. Primary and secondary education must be reformed, in particular to underscore creativity and innovation — the mainstays of high-value added products and services. Children should be nurtured on risk-taking, with a low expectation of corporate cosseting.
12. Research universities must be vigorously supported.
15. Worker benefits (health care, re-training credits, pensions) should be portable, to induce rather than impede labor mobility.

So where were the re-training programs, entrepreneurial, and research supportive efforts in the tax cuts in the past years? Seems that education is one of the more severly cut areas of federal and state budget cuts in the past 2-3 years.

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Politics

“proto-fascist”

Patriot Games

The answer to the latter question remains to be seen, I guess. But I think most readers understood what I meant. Since the Clinton Wars of the late ’90s, and especially since the 9/11 attacks, social conservatives – the folks who get their religious doctrine from Pat Robertson and their political doctrine from Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter – have metastasized into something we haven’t seen in this country since the McCarthy era: a large, reasonably well-organized right-wing authoritarian movement, which not only fears and loathes its left-wing opponents, but increasingly regards opposition itself as tantamount to treason.

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Politics

“proto-fascist”

Patriot Games

The answer to the latter question remains to be seen, I guess. But I think most readers understood what I meant. Since the Clinton Wars of the late ’90s, and especially since the 9/11 attacks, social conservatives – the folks who get their religious doctrine from Pat Robertson and their political doctrine from Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter – have metastasized into something we haven’t seen in this country since the McCarthy era: a large, reasonably well-organized right-wing authoritarian movement, which not only fears and loathes its left-wing opponents, but increasingly regards opposition itself as tantamount to treason.

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Personal

Olympics, Maybe

I may be going to the Athens Olympics. The good part, work is picking up the tab. The bad part, I would be loading, moving, unloading lots of feed and bedding.

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Personal

Olympics, Maybe

I may be going to the Athens Olympics. The good part, work is picking up the tab. The bad part, I would be loading, moving, unloading lots of feed and bedding.